Medical Xpress September 23, 2024
Current diagnostic guidelines for a rare type of lymphoma miss a subset of patients with the disease, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in the journal Blood.
Cutaneous T-cell lymphomas are a group of diverse and rare cancers which mostly affect the skin, but can sometimes spread from the skin to the blood or a lymph node. It is the most common type of lymphoma, and roughly 12 people per million are diagnosed with the disease each year, said Joan Guitart, MD, chief of Dermatopathology in the Department of Dermatology and senior author of the study.
“At Northwestern, we have one of the largest cohorts of patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphomas,” said Guitart, who also leads the cutaneous lymphoma...
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